Sotheby’s have secured a monumental sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti for an unconventional “sealed bid” sale. As part of the modern and contemporary art evening sales in New York, the confidential bidding ran from 20-27 October 2020.
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Assumed missing for 60 years, an important painting by African American artist, Jacob Lawrence, (1917-2000) has been unexpectedly discovered in a private collection in New York. It has now been reunited with the rest of the series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the public can view the panel for the first time since 1960.
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Beastie Boys rapper Michael ‘Mike D’ Diamond is selling his mum’s spectacular collection of Old Masters and contemporary art at Sotheby’s in New York. Entitled ‘Fearless: The Collection of Hester Diamond’, the upcoming sale is expected to fetch as much as $30 million (£23 million).
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The sudden appearance of a street artwork in Nottingham has sparked a row over the painting’s attribution.
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Discovered at the Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, a Nazi looted painting has finally been returned to its rightful heirs after almost 90 years. This recent recovery is part of an international effort involving the FBI to restitute more than 1,000 artworks and artefacts seized in 1933 from the Mosse family, who were prominent Jewish residents of Berlin.
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After a centuries-old hunt, experts at a roundtable declared that a “lost” Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) masterpiece actually does not exist at all. Art historians Roberta Barsanti, Giancula Belli, Emanuela Ferrretti and Cecilia Frosinini presented the controversial findings at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence on 8 October 2020.
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Archaeologists have uncovered a previously undescribed style of Aboriginal rock art across an 80-mile stretch of northern Australia’s Arnhem Land. A total of 570 paintings were identified, depicting long-extinct creatures and extraordinary relationships between humans and animals.
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Following a report from the Dutch Council of Culture, several major museums have pledged to repatriate looted artworks in an attempt to rectify historical wrongs. An estimated 100,000 artefacts stolen by colonialists could be subject to restitution.
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The Royal Opera House has announced its ‘Portrait of Sir David Webster’ by David Hockney will go under the hammer at Christie’s 20th Century: London to Paris sale on 22 October in London to raise essential funds.
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London’s Cromwell Place, an innovative gallery hub spanning five Grade II listed townhouses, will finally open on 10 October 2020. Its original opening date in May 2020 was delayed, like many other events across the world, due to the outbreak of coronavirus.
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